Sunday, August 17, 2008

Back When Protestants Feared Jesuits

The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline
by Joseph Bottum
Copyright (c) 2008 First Things (August/September 2008).

An excerpt.
From the beginning, Protestants in America felt some interdenominational unity simply because they were all Protestants—named by their protest against Rome. The United States never experienced a state-sponsored Catholic Church, capable of oppressing dissenters. Still, even in this country, the Protestant imagination was formed by works such as John Foxe’s 1563 Book of Martyrs, and it retained a collective image of the Reformation as a time when Protestants of every stripe were martyred for their faith by the Jesuitical priests of the Roman Antichrist.

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